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NEW ORLEANS - Larry Allen, Warren Sapp, Jonathan Ogden, Cris Carter and Bill Parcells were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2013.
In addition, senior-committee candidates Curley Culp and Dave Robinson also were inducted.
Parcells was the longest-discussed candidate. The committee took almost an hour to go through his credentials, according to committee member Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News. Parcells helped turn around four franchises - the Giants, Patriots, Jets and Cowboys - as a coach and administrator, winning two Super Bowls (XXI and XXV) and being named NFL Coach of the Year twice, in 1986 and 1994. He was the first coach to lead four teams to the playoffs in NFL history.
"This is unbelievable. It's exhilarating," Parcells said. "I am just grateful for the men who were named before me. They are the ones who paved the way for me and other coaches to get in."
Parcells was on the ballot for the first time last year, when he came up short of getting into Canton.
"This year was a little less stressful than last year. I thought I had a good chance to get in," he said. "I was kind of hoping it would happen. Things didn't work out, but I am happy to join now. It's great."
"I'm very happy for Bill. This is long overdue," Giants president and CEO John Mara said. "He's one of the best coaches in NFL history. He turned our franchise around. We went through a long period in the 1960's and 70's when we were a laughing stock. When Bill took over in 1983, he survived a very difficult first year, but then turned us into a perennial playoff contender and won two Super Bowls for us. He coached three other teams and everywhere he went, he had great success. I'm very happy that he will be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame."
"Congratulations to Coach Parcells on his election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame," said Patriots chairman and CEO Robert Kraft. "It is well deserved. As a Patriots fan, I will always appreciate the credibility he brought to our franchise as a two-time Super Bowl champion. We had never had a head coach with those credentials. I am very happy for Bill and look forward to his enshrinement ceremonies."
The eight-time Pro Bowler Carter caught 130 TD passes and played in 234 career games in a 16-year career. He had eight straight 1,000-yard receiving seasons and amassed 42 100-yard receiving games. In 2000, Carter became just the second player ever to collect 1,000 catches in a career.
"The Vikings are thrilled that Cris has been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame," Vikings owner and chairman Zygi Wilf said. "For over a decade Cris entertained Vikings fans with his trademark great catches and competitiveness, as he became one of the most beloved players in franchise history. Cris represented the Vikings organization in a first-class manner both on and off the field. We appreciate his place in Minnesota Vikings history, and we look forward to seeing him enshrined in Canton later this year."
Allen spent 14 seasons blocking for Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, and was one of a handful of players to make two NFL All-Decade teams - in the 1990s and 2000s. Allen played every position on the offensive line except for center and was a member of three Super Bowl-winning teams. He spent 12 years with the Cowboys before spending the final two with the 49ers.
"I just broke down and started crying (when the announcement was made)," Allen said.
An intimidator for much of his career, Allen was asked to describe his style of play in the NFL.
"My thought process when I played was I wanted to make the guy quit," Allen said. Tap out."
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will give Allen's induction speech. "He's like a father to me," Allen said.
Sapp was the premiere three-technique defensive tackle in the NFL for much of the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1999, when he registered 12.5 sacks, 54 tackles and three forced fumbles. Sapp was a four-time All-Pro member.
"This is a proud day for the Buccaneers organization and Bucs fans everywhere," Buccaneers co-chairman Bryan Glazer said. "Warren played the game with incredible ability and passion. He was a leader on one of the best defenses in NFL history and helped to redefine the defensive tackle position. It is a fitting honor that he will be recognized as one of the greatest to ever play, and we could not be happier for him."
Ogden was the inaugural pick of the Ravens' franchise after moving from Cleveland in 1996. He was named to 11 Pro Bowls and was a member of the Ravens' Super Bowl XXXV-winning club in 2001. Ogden was named All-Pro in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006.
"It's such a nerve-racking thing, waiting for the (announcement)," Ogden said. "It's really a unique experience. It was stressful.
"Obviously, it would have been great if Art Modell had gotten in. He drafted me."
Ogden was drafted in the same class as Ray Lewis, who will play in Sunday's Super Bowl vs. the 49ers.
Culp was an undersized nose tackle, predominantly with the Oilers and Chiefs, who made six Pro Bowls and was one of the best 3-4 interior forces in his era.
"Curley was a dominating force on the defensive line for the Super Bowl IV championship team and one of many great players that helped build the tradition and foundation of the Kansas City Chiefs," Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said. "We look forward to seeing him take his rightful place in Canton."
Robinson was a key member of Vince Lombardi's Packers teams in the 1960s and was named to the All-Decade team for those years.
Sixty-eight current Hall of Famers entered the Hall on their first ballot. There have never been four first-time candidates get in during a single vote. Allen and Sapp were the only first-time candidates to make it this year.
Seventeen finalists - including two senior candidates - were eligible for this year's class. The 10 finalists included: Allen, Bettis, Carter, Haley, Ogden, Parcells, Reed, Sapp, Strahan and Williams.
Of those, seven (plus two senior candidates) made the final round of cuts: Culp, Robinson, Allen, Ogden, Parcells, Sapp and Carter.
Others who did not make the final 10: Art Modell, Eddie DeBartolo Jr., Tim Brown, Will Shields and Kevin Greene. Modell was second only to Parcells for longest discussion by the committee, but he did not make the second cut.


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If the past three games are any indication, the Yreka Miners varsity boys basketball team is well on its way to putting last season far behind them.
After losing the first two games of the year in fairly close contests, the Miners have won three straight, including a 60-57 victory over Willows at the Mount Shasta Holiday Basketball Tournament on Thursday.
Yreka trailed 39-23 at the half but played inspired basketball in the second half to come away with the victory.
Last season, Yreka earned only five wins compared to 18 for Willows, which is considered a solid team in the Northern Section, the same section Yreka plays in.
Miners head coach Christian Birch said that a win like this "gives us confidence." Birch commended his team for the way they came out in the second half and battled back to earn the victory.
The key on Thursday, Birch said, was that the squad played with energy and passion and played smart, disciplined basketball in the second half. In the first half, he said, the team played with a lack of energy and focus, which showed on the scoreboard.
In the first quarter, after Tyler Curie scored to give the Miners an 8-7 advantage with 4:57 left in the quarter, the Miners did not put up a single point the rest of the quarter and trailed 21-8. And with Yreka trailing by 16 at the half, the chance of earning a victory appeared to be fading fast.
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Birch said that the win was a true "team effort," with a number of players stepping up. This included three players finishing in double digits.
Currie, a sophomore who leads the team in scoring this season with 19.8 points per game, went off for 25 points, including six three-pointers. He also had six assits, two rebounds, two steals and a block.
Tevin Cadola had 10 points and five assits.
Senior Tyler Johnson finished with 12 points. He also had seven rebounds, three steals, three assists and a block shot. Birch said that Johnson did a very good job in the second half containing the Honkers best player, six feet, nine inch senior post player Ryan Amaru.
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After winning so very few games last season, Johnson said that it's been great to see the team turning a corner and said that "things have been a lot better," for the Miners this year in terms of morale and coming together as a team.
Quaid Blanchard finished with six rebounds, two blocks, three assits and four points. Kaden Culp had five points, two assits and three rebounds.
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"I don't file frivolous lawsuits," Carney said. "I thought long and hard before I filed the suit because I realize I have to deal with the Gaming Commission on a daily basis."
Dog racing, once a major draw at Raynham Park, was banned by voters in 2010. Since then the park has remained open largely by way of revenue from simulcast racing, in which guests bet on dog and horse races happening in other states.
Carney said he has not heard from the commission since filing suit, and said he is not concerned about angering regulators with his lawsuit.
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Carney claims that Ourway Realty, the disqualified former owner of Plainridge Racecourse, will continue to profit once the slots parlor opens in 2015.
The Gaming Commission banned Ourway from seeking a license last summer after state investigators accused Plainridge president Gary Piontkowski of pocketing more than $1 million from the track's cash room over a 10-year period.
The lawsuit claims an agreement between Ourway and Springfield Gaming will provide Piontkowski a percentage of the gambling operation's earnings "in perpetuity."
"If you were disqualified on a Monday, they shouldn't put you back in on Tuesday," Carney said. "You're either in or you're out."
Spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said Thursday that the commission has been formally notified of the lawsuit, but that she could not comment on pending litigation beyond saying that the commission's attorneys are reviewing the matter.
Penn National, which operates casinos and slots parlors in several states, plans to open the $225 million Plainridge Park Casino by next spring.
Eric Schippers, a spokesman for Penn National, said in a statement earlier this week that Carney's claims are "legally and factually deficient."
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Carney said that if Penn's license is rescinded he hopes to be back in the running, but could not say for certain.
"That I couldn't give you the answer to," Carney said. "Whether I'm chosen or not chosen again, that's not the issue."
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Now, even that perk is fading away.
Most ordinary homebuyers are paying the same or higher rates than the fortunate few who can afford much more.
Rates for a conventional 30-year fixed mortgage are averaging 4.48 percent, according to Bankrate. For "jumbo" mortgages — those above $417,000 in much of the country — the average is 4.47 percent.
This trend reflects the widening wealth gap between the richest Americans and everyone else. Bankers now view jumbo borrowers as safer and shrewder bets even though conventional borrowers put less capital at risk.
Used to be, rates for conventional mortgages would be 0.2 to 0.3 of a point below rates on jumbo mortgages. A decade ago, a conventional rate averaged 5.68 percent, a jumbo 5.97 percent. The advantage for middle-class borrowers was possible in part because government-chartered firms guarantee that lenders will be paid on a conventional mortgage even if a borrower defaults. No such guarantee exists for jumbos.
Two factors have caused the spread between conventional and jumbo rates to vanish:
— The government in 2012 began raising the fees it charges lenders for guaranteeing payments on conventional mortgages. Lenders passed along that increase to borrowers in the form of higher rates. The fees are meant to stop home buyers from once again borrowing more than they can afford — a trend that fueled the 2007 housing bust.
— Bankers say they've begun using mortgage rates to woo high-net-worth clients: Attractive rates on jumbos have become a way to secure additional business from those clients — from managing their investments to supplying a broad suite of financial services. What's more, those borrowers tend to be clustered in neighborhoods that lenders consider more stable.
"Jumbo borrowers represent the holy grail of what financial institutions are pursuing: that much-desired, mass affluent consumer," said Greg McBride, a senior analyst at Bankrate.
In the first three months of 2014, 37 percent of the money Bank of America lent for mortgages went to jumbos, compared with 22 percent at the same point last year.
The lower rates are geared for affluent borrowers living in "sweet spots" with strong employment and stable home prices — areas like metro New York City, Boston and sections of California, said Matt Vernon, who leads consumer mortgage lending at Bank of America.
"We're lending where we believe home ownership is sustainable," Vernon said.
Wells Fargo offers jumbos starting at 4.25 percent, about 0.25 point lower than for conventional mortgages. This month, Wells trumpeted the spillover benefits of increased jumbo lending: A 14 percent year-over-year increase in loans from its separate "wealth, brokerage and retirement" division.
"Hopefully, it'll continue to go up," Wells' CFO, Timothy Sloan, said of prospects for continued jumbo lending.
Sales of homes exceeding $1 million leapt 7.8 percent over the past 12 months. That contrasted with a 7.5 percent drop in overall home-buying in that period, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Prices have appreciated in areas such as San Francisco, New York and Washington, which have higher thresholds for jumbo mortgages than the national average. Jumbos in these cities are for loans above $625,500, about $200,000 more than the national average.
The median price of a two-bedroom home in San Francisco is $1.02 million, according to the real estate site Trulia. The median for New York City homes: $1.2 million.
Nationwide, just 2 percent of homes fetch prices that large.
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Long, airy moderates like Prince of Darkness (5.10c), Epinephrine (5.9) and Crimson Chrysalis (5.8) made Red Rock Canyon famous. But what most climbers don't know about this 196,000-acre national conservation area just outside of Las Vegas is how much more potential it has -- and yet, more unfortunately, how much potential there is to lose.
Long, airy moderates like Prince of Darkness (5.10c), Epinephrine (5.9) and Crimson Chrysalis (5.8) made Red Rock Canyon famous. But what most climbers don't know about this 196,000-acre national conservation area just outside of Las Vegas is how much more potential it has — and yet, more unfortunately, how much potential there is to lose.
In fact, many of Red Rock's best routes are new, or just neglected as climbers line up for the same old classics. Routes like The Warrior (5.11a), Adventure Punks (5.10d), Lady Luck (5.7) and Drifting (5.11c) are testaments to the area's continuing vast potential, and to climbers' willingness to continue climbing despite a bolting ban imposed by land managers.
Somewhere between the last slot-machine-equipped Starbucks and the first sighting of wild burros is a battlefront, where the war between expansion and conservation is being fought. The outcome has implications beyond the dwindling swaths of cactus and creosote bushes, threatening a loss of that wild, un-Vegas experience that climbers have long enjoyed on the majestic walls of Red Rock.
Now, with continued delays by the Bureau of Land Management to legalize anchor replacement and new bolts, and the pending construction of a 20,000-person community on the hillside facing the park, Red Rock is in trouble.
Garrett Grove and I, two Washington climbers, escaped soggy Seattle this spring for our chance to explore what I had heard described as a bunch of amazing routes nobody ever does.
On our sunrise approach to the trip's first climb, we craned our necks to look at Cactus Flower Tower, its major corner system casting a striking shadow up the wall. This face houses one of Red Rock's most obvious lines: The Warrior (5.11a), 1,100 feet of right-leaning corners and cracks that beg to be climbed. So why, until just five years ago, had no one ever climbed it?
That was the looming question Rob Dezonia, a Vegas local, would ask his brother Pat each time they walked past Cactus Flower Tower. In the fall of 2006, Rob decided to answer it with a car-to-car ground-up attempt at the new line. But before he could, he needed to cajole the late-rising Pat into a pre-dawn start by promising him a free sushi dinner. Armed with an arsenal of gear, the brothers found five varied corner pitches of 5.10 and 5.11 climbing, run-out patina face holds, and confirmation that unclimbed classics still await.
We contemplated the latest guidebook's description of this new-school classic.
Arduous approach. Yep, no problem there.
Six #3 Camalots. We've got four I guess we can run it out
Kneepads are nice. Hmm, those clouds look a little dark maybe something else today?
Garrett and I fumbled excuses, turned the page and picked another all-day adventure: a journey up 2,000 feet of rarely touched rock via Lady Luck (5.7) and Celtic Cracks (5.10a). As we veered off toward First Creek Canyon, I glanced up, and it was The Warrior that again held my gaze.
Snow and sun alternately showered our cactus-crowded ledge atop Lady Luck. We eyed suburbia's push toward the Wilderness boundary, a line we couldn't see but knew must exist beyond the mouth of these canyons. I wondered if our next visit to the park would show this boundary marked with condos rather than cacti.
Red Rock Canyon is a national conservation area administered by the American West's biggest landowner, the Bureau of Land Management — or, as environmentalists deride, the Bureau of Logging and Mining. In terms of large climbing areas in the West, Red Rock (as well as Indian Creek) is an anomaly in that it's not a national park — a difference with important ramifications.
Lost in a sea of agency acronyms is the fact that the NPS and BLM espouse vastly different policies toward climbers. With frequently updated management plans and dedicated search-and-rescue squads, the NPS can be seen as a bit like a mollycoddling parent, while the BLM acts more like a laissez-faire babysitter. While this arrangement has worked for Indian Creek, in Red Rock, the hands-off approach only emerged after the implementation of steep fines to enforce a total bolting ban in the park's wilderness. Climbers have been restricted, with little chance of redress, by an out-of-touch manager. Although the BLM does list rockclimbing right next to weddings on its recreation website, the agency, just to use one example, recommends decades-old guidebooks, ignoring the four most recent generations of guidebooks to the area.
In 1980, much of Red Rock was designated as a wilderness study area, a designation that remained in place until 2002, when the Rainbow Mountain and La Madre Mountain Wilderness areas were congressionally signed into existence. Together, these wilderness areas comprise 67,000 acres and the majority of Red Rock's canyons, walls, and most famous climbs. From the time the region was designated as a study area in 1980, No bolting was supposed to have occurred, says Sendi Kalcic, current Red Rock Wilderness Specialist at the BLM. The no-new-bolts policy was eventually put into writing in the management plan adopted in 1995. Today climbers who add bolts risk facing a mandatory appearance in federal court. And Red Rock law enforcement officer Erica Schumaker describes a penalty of probably $500 at the minimum.
Glancing through Jerry Handren's 2007 Red Rocks: A Climber's Guide, you may notice first-ascent information from the 1970s, but few similar details for the modern classics. Due to the bolting ban, officially anonymous routes are now the norm in Red Rock, and on this trip, Garrett and I were keen to learn if the clandestine efforts had produced routes that stacked up with those of the past.
The next day, we strode the crest of a towering fin of white stone separating the Pine Creek and Juniper Creek drainages. We compared echoes down either side of the precipitous escarpment and gawked at the Jet Stream Wall straight ahead. Lacking both ambition and the required four #00 TCUs for the crux of the 600-foot Jet Stream (5.12c), we set our sights on Drifting (5.11c), a 500-foot plumb line of patina edges, discontinuous seams, and recently drilled bolts. With no other people in sight all day, we enjoyed Drifting's intricate face climbing and thin cracks protected by trad gear. Unlike the experience of climbing Levitation 29 or Time's Up, topping out on Drifting didn't leave us with the bittersweet sense of having climbed bolted cracks. After an outstanding route, we joked about owing the first-ascent team a round of beers. Luckily for our ever-dwindling trip budget, anonymous creditors rarely collect.
Early in our 10-day stay, we drove the park's one-way loop road to the Pine Creek trailhead. The planned double-header was a pair of neglected trad classics: Challenger (5.10d) and Jupiter II (5.11), 500 and 600 feet, respectively. On a day when Las Vegas registered winds of 65 miles per hour, we spent 10 hours on the Challenger Wall, a cliff of which our guidebook had warned, Seems to somehow amplify any winds that may be blowing. Despite our chapped and bleeding lips, the immaculate corners and improbable roofs tempered our discomfort.
From high on the Challenger Wall, we watched the ambient light of Las Vegas glow above the darkening vista of Blue Diamond Hill. From the sixth and final pitch of Jupiter II we pulled our rap ropes and crossed our fingers. Our ropes slid through the anchor and instantly eloped with the wind, their flapping joined by a cacophony of crashing and tearing noises that sounded like rock fall but were only violent gusts accelerating through the canyon's narrow corridor. To no avail we pulled on the stuck ropes, now a tangle disappearing sideways into the blackness. We abandoned one cord and reached the ground with our second, knowing we would have to re-climb Challenger to retrieve the first.
One of Red Rock's best aspects is the sense of isolation and wilderness you can experience despite being so close to urban sprawl. Only after the sun sets do you see the lurid glow of the Strip, and during the day you are able to enjoy desert panoramas of yucca and sagebrush from high on your route.
One of these lonesome hillsides adjacent to Red Rock is perhaps Nevada's most valuable real estate — 2,400 acres atop Blue Diamond Hill. The derelict gypsum mine now forms a geographical barrier between urban Las Vegas and Red Rock Canyon. It is here that developer Jim Rhodes is trying to gain the green light for a sprawling community on Red Rock's doorstep.
Describing Rhodes as controversial is like describing Fred Beckey as prolific. This successful yet infamous developer drew the ire of environmentalists after building the Red Rock Country Club near the Canyon. In a 2009 Las Vegas Review-Journal article, written by John Edwards, about Rhodes' petition to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, Rhodes was cited as being grilled by the Arizona Corporation Commission after he admitted to illegally giving campaign contributions to Senator Harry Reid and then County Commissioner Dario Herrera. In the same article, Erin Kenny, the former Clark County commissioner, was described as someone who regularly pushed or supported proposals that benefited [Rhodes], and quoted as admitting to being paid over $200,000 a year by the developer between the time of her guilty plea and 30-month sentencing on corruption charges.
After an April 2010 county commission decision to allow for denser zoning on the land facing Red Rock was made in his favor, Rhodes decided to pay the $490,000 in delinquent taxes on this suddenly more valuable property. He can now take a major project proposal back to the county commission, an expansion-friendly board that recently saw four of its seven members convicted of taking bribes from developers.
The current development proposal facing the park is likely to mirror Rhodes' 2003 plan for 5,500 homes, stoplights and strip malls.
Evan Blythin, a local activist on the citizens' advisory panel, says, Such a development is going to ruin one of the greatest monuments in the world. It will be a visual eyesore. Rhodes' first proposed development here was thwarted by the creation of a state law preventing dense development adjacent to wilderness. But in 2009 a federal judge struck down the law, and put expansion back on the table. A suburb of 20,000 people may become the immediate neighbor of wilderness.
After finding a straight-sided chock stamped VB on our trip up Jupiter II, I phoned the long-time desert climber Paul Van Betten about the 1986 first ascent. He described early forays into upper Pine Creek as hikes up the pristine canyon, punctuated by Holy shit! moments, as more and more obvious unclimbed lines appeared on the walls.
Jupiter II is one of Van Betten's all-time favorites and he was happy to learn that the wind still plays its noisy tricks. Our conversation turned to the ban on route development inside the park, and plans for a huge development next door. Van Betten, like many locals, is disgusted by Rhodes' record of expansion, and describes the BLM as really silent on the issue. The BLM office responsible for Red Rock confirms a lack of a stance on development outside the park boundaries.
Van Betten has witnessed 30 years of changes to the park, and a decade-long delay on completing a climbing-management plan, despite the fact that over 60,000 climbers come to Red Rock each year. It's a dereliction of duty on the BLM's part, Van Betten says. Adamant about these peaks' vast potential, he insists that Red Rock has 1,000 Levitation 29s, if the bolting could go on, though he expresses reservations about the desirability of any other bolted crack climbs. Speaking candidly, Van Betten also sees the bolting restrictions as a reaction to the tactics of local climbers, whose history of chipping at nearby limestone crags has been a failure to police ourselves.
On our fifth day in Red Rock, proper spring temperatures finally arrived, and it looked like we wouldn't have to fight over the single belay jacket. The day's objective was Adventure Punks (5.10d), a five-pitch route in Pine Creek Canyon that Van Betten, Richard Harrison and Nick Dordblom established in 1983. These climbers, along with the likes of Jay Smith, were the original Adventure Punks, a prolific cadre that established some of the area's best and hardest routes, adhering to a mentality of minimal fixed gear.
We completed a two-hour hike, and 500-plus feet of stellar climbing, and then I racked up beneath the route's last pitch: a knee-scraping, ankle-scarring 5.10d offwidth that I realized too late would surely punish me. The wide maw loomed overhead, and I contemplated how I alays get nervous about d grades. Knowing the history of the final pitch of Adventure Punks, which nearly ended the lives of its first ascentionists, only worsened my anxiety.
Harrison, climbing on Nordblom's hip belay, had onsighted the offwidth finale, running it out on the last 60 feet of left-leaning, arcing corner. While seconding the pitch, the swami-clad Nick Nordblom violated one of the Adventure Punks' rules. He fell. With almost no gear in place above him, Nordblom cartwheeled out of the corner and across the wall. The shouts of both men filled Pine Creek Canyon, joined by the distinctive ping! of a piton coming undone as Harrison's belay ripped. Both climbers ultimately found themselves dangling from a single 1/4 Rawl bolt, which the bolt-shy Harrison had grudgingly tapped into place.
With courage derived from the presence of the multiple cams unavailable to the Adventure Punks at the time, I squirmed and squeezed up the slot. Moving my chalkbag and #6 out onto my left hip, and walking the #5 Camalot up the crack, I imagined Harrison, 27 years prior, adjusting his swami until his knot was on the side, placing his single #4 Friend, and committing to the head-spinning runout. It's a different story today. I placed all my big cams, clipped two retro-bolts, and finished. I claimed success, though perhaps not style.
The Adventure Punks avoided bolting to preserve a tradition. Today's climbers avoid bolting to preserve their bank accounts. And those who do bolt, avoid admitting it. When $150-per-bolt citations were proposed by a ranger at an early meeting of the Climbers' Liaison Council in the 1980s, Van Betten stood up and offered a ranger $300 on the spot. I'd just seen a new splitter crack and wanted to buy an anchor. The ranger wasn't amused. Bolt installation went underground and has remained there ever since.
Prior to 2008, Red Rock actually had a resident climber ranger who would occasionally allow anchor replacements. In theoryanyone could get a re-bolting permit, recalls Greg Barnes of the American Safe Climbing Association, but in practice it was nearly only the ASCA. But the ranger left and for the last two years, due to an expired Environmental Assessment, even the ASCA has been barred from replacing any aging hardware. In March of this year, the Las Vegas Climbers' Liaison Council pushed for a renewed Environmental Assessment, which would allow 1-to-1 replacement of dangerous bolts. Such a document was written and planned forplementation by June, but as of September no action had been taken. The BLM now hopes to update re-bolting policies during the winter of 2010-2011.
Given the BLM's history of delays in addressing this issue, anonymous replacement and new routing are likely to continue. According to Lee Kirk, the BLM's Lead Outdoor Recreation Planner, the BLM is currently working with the Las Vegas Climbers' Liaison Council to develop a memorandum of understanding of its plans for interacting with the community. Although an overdue step in the right direction, the memorandum will not change the area's new bolting rules. That will require an updated Climbing Management Plan. And climbing policy, Kirk says, is contingent upon a new Wilderness Plan. The first draft of such a plan isn't expected by the BLM until early 2011, and according to Kirk, a completed plan is years away.
By our final day in Red Rock, Garrett and I had run out of excuses and, with a decidedly minor arsenal of gear, set out to answer the call of The Warrior. A derelict roadbed, these days the domain of climbers and coyotes, led us toward an obvious brush-filled gully. Shaded by the initial chimney, we pulled gear from our packs, and pine and cactus needles from our shirts and underwear. Then we were off.
Living up to all expectations, The Warrior was a demanding line: at times excellent, at times scary, and ultimately unforgettable.
Atop the spire we pantomimed the endless fist jams on pitch three, still thrilled. Having finally reached the summit, the last one of the trip, we were reluctant to go down. The pointed shadows of the mountains, like a yawning line of teeth, stretched eastward on the desert floor. We tried to spot our silhouettes, imagining them extending above Cactus Flower Tower toward an invisible boundary between wilderness and whatever lies beyond. The evening sun dimmed while the lights of Las Vegas grew, directing our gazes toward development and the very thing we had sought to escape. Just over the hill, it was approaching.
Blake Herrington learned to climb in the North Cascades of Washington, and now resides in Denver, navigating the wilderness of part-time employment and full-time climbing obsession.


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I think from now on I'm going to have to refer to the history of my taste buds and cooking experience as BCL and ACL. Before Cooking with Lévana, I was a quick, shelved or frozen, white flour, white sugar, margarine toting, powder smoking spice kind of gal. I'd bend to the will of the dish….whatever it took to make it taste good…as long as it was easy, standardized and accessible, I was there. Rosemary or thyme were my occasional exotic additions. I avoided shopping till the cupboard was nearly bare – only then stocking up on the shelf life 'big easyz' frozen over canned, fresh produce reserved for guests and/or lichvod Shabbos. I'd bring home the symmetric little dried herbs that pour forth from large holed plastic dispensers, meat and chicken over fish, and whatever was on sale that might creatively fit the menu in some form or fashion. Healthy meant replacing vegetable oil with canola or extra light virgin olive oil and using sea salt instead of kosher salt. Even when I used fresh garlic or onions, I would sprinkle some of the magic elixir vita bottled powder just to make sure it had enough flavor. Oh, I can just hear Lévana's horrified gasps in response to this confession, as she feverishly prays for my culinary soul's redemption.
OK… OK don't worry, all you brilliantly talented kitchen foodistas out there, I'm learning. Last night's feast included a whole exotic array of new flavors to my unexposed palate. Fennel, saffron, turmeric (OK once or twice) and haricot verts (don't worry it's just lovely skinny green beans), agave and grey salt. As before, Lévana's gift for blending natural healthy ingredients in a quick uncomplicated way to create delicious, good tasting, good for you dishes is nothing short of Merlin magical. Tonight, Monet's color palette was resurrected, as Lévana paid close attention to the color scheme and blending of the evening's Spring fresh offerings. The menu included Chicken Breasts with Artichoke and Carrot, Zucchini and Fennel Soup, Haricots Verts, Roasted Peppers and Heirloom Tomato salad with Grey Salt, Herbed Yukon Fingerlings and Plum Granola Tart.
Lévana likes to start out with the dessert prep while hands and surfaces are fresh, clean and residual free. Preparing the pie dough, Lévana talked about the perks of gluten free living and how the wide variety of healthy grain flours such as millet, granola, buckwheat, cornmeal, quinoa, chick peas, et al, are readily available as substitutes for white flour. As she spoke about nutrition she quipped; "There is no idea regarding nutrition that I have not thought of. It's my life's work! I've found the very best way to do it, and this is it! I'm not a chef, nor a sous chef, I'm a housewife who wants to do the best job possible…simple, simple, simple."
While preparing the Zucchini Fennel Soup, Lévana explained her choice of yellow zucchini squash over the green colored ones. "Don't throw off the color scheme. There is a color scheme in cooking…the yellow zucchini goes better with the colors of the fennel and leeks…light with light…" The soup was earthy and delicious. The flavors subtle and soothing, the licorice taste of the fennel blended well with its pale chartreuse partners.
In preparing the Chicken Breasts with Artichokes, as well as the Haricots Verts salad, Levana did advocate for the frozen packages for these items, although she took the time to show us how to prepare a fresh artichoke. She makes it look so easy…
The colorful Spring salad with its rich green colors, festively adorned with the reds and oranges of the tomatoes and peppers was tangy and flavorful; the chicken tender, rustic and delicious. CS, the potato lover, found the spuds scrumptious!
The Plum Granola Tart looked like a still life in a classic renaissance painting, its taste – especially the cassis custard – was fit for a king. What it did to my palate was reminiscent me of a fine dessert wine, a wine that starts tart and sweet but ends with delightful, slight hint of dryness.
Lévana uses what she describes as assertive ingredients. "The very best ingredients don't need enhancement, they are like that perfect little black dress…add a string of pearls and you're good to go…it's fully stated." And so was our evening, perfectly stated and sated. Thanks again Lévana for a delightful night out.


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"Some very basic elements of human development related to water, sanitation and hygiene that were accepted in the 19th and early 20th centuries are still unavailable to a large proportion of pregnant women in the 21st century", write the authors of a new Simavi study [1].
Each year 290,000 women die from complications during pregnancy, birth and the neonatal period; and, an estimated 10 to 20 million women suffer from related health complications. Almost 90% of the maternal deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Much of this is preventable through practices that have long been established.
The Simavi study reviews published literature describing the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene on maternal health and mortality.
Two studies showed significant correlations between increased access to water and sanitation and reductions in maternal mortality. Specific evidence was found relating to the impact of water carrying and water and sanitation-related infections on pregnant women, and to the impact of hygiene during and after delivery.
However, relatively few high quality studies were found on the basis of which generalisations can be made about the specific linkages between water, sanitation and hygiene on the one hand and maternal health on the other.
There was much more literature on the impact of hygienic practices during delivery on neonatal mortality. Clean delivery procedures are key to preventing neonatal deaths. Unhygienic practices during delivery that cause death of the newborn baby are also likely to have an impact on the health of the mother.
Even though it is clear how important is for mothers to have access to safe water, sanitation and clean birthing, they often have little influence on expenditures and decisions that would improve these services.
The study suggests that the educational/promotional aspects relating to WASH and (maternal and newborn) health should be improved and addressed from pregnancy up to child care. Similarly, health centres and hospitals should have running water, clean toilets, safe refuse disposal, clean beds and areas for deliveries. Consistent hygiene in clinics and hospitals should be ensured. More high-quality research is needed on the linkages between WASH and maternal health in the context of low-income countries.
Getting it right was written by Kathleen Shordt and Eefje Smet, consultants for the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Kathy Herschderfer, senior advisor from the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam reviewed the report.
Simavi is a Netherlands-based public health NGO with projects in Asia and Africa.
[1] Shordt, K., Smet, E. and Herschderfer, K. 2012. Getting it right : improving maternal health through water, sanitation & hygiene. Haarlem, The Netherlands: Simavi. ii, 31 p. : 3 fig., photogr. 98 ref. Available at: <www.simavi.nl/assets/Uploads/Simavi-Publicatie_Getting-It-Right.pdf>


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Serving those in need
Many volunteer at organizations providing food for Thanksgiving
Local organizations opened their doors Thursday as volunteers and others gave up their traditional Thanksgiving lunch to serve others, including those who didn't have a home to go to for Thanksgiving dinner.
For its 2012 Thanksgiving, Alberta Baptist Church once again set up a 40- by 60-foot red-striped tent large enough to hold hundreds, in the parking lot behind its still-uninhabitable building. The building was decimated by the April 27, 2011, tornado that destroyed so much of surrounding neighborhood.
"There's always need. Even if there'd been no storm, there'd be need," said the church's pastor, the Rev. Larry Corder. Alberta Baptist started the Thanksgiving lunches last November.
"There are still people experiencing the aftereffects of the storm. We have a homeless man here today who wants a tent to live in. Jesus fed the hungry, but that was just a beginning to what he did; we are also about meeting deeper needs. If you fill the spirit, that will benefit someone for all eternity, not just on our lifespan here on earth.
"We just want people to know we love them and care for them."
The church's congregation continues to meet at Open Door Baptist while awaiting the money and construction efforts to restore its location at 2210 University Blvd. E., right in the heart of the devastation.
Corder and others remarked on the beauty of the day, and how far the area had come since last year's first tent Thanksgiving. Church members had traveled through the area in recent weeks, making sure that all felt welcome. By noon, they'd seen visitors from the area, but also from throughout the county.
The event also served as a reminder of the church's presence in Alberta.
"We want people to know we're coming back; we're rebuilding," Corder said.
Another growing tradition seems to be doubling in numbers, downtown at Chuck's Fish. For Thanksgiving, the fine-dining restaurant opens its tables to everyone, regardless of need. Those who can pay for their meal contribute to Project Blessings, a nonprofit organization that helps low-income or underprivileged homeowners make much-needed repairs through volunteers, donations and reduced-pricing for skilled laborers. Project Blessings works on 15 to 20 homes a year, and donations are its only source of funding. Buckets for donations are placed around the restaurant, but no one is urged to give.
"We've made about $4,500 the past two years," said Martha Sprayberry, who began Project Blessings in 2009. "But this is not about the money."
Co-owner Charles Morgan started the giving tradition almost two decades ago at his Destin, Fla., restaurant Harbor Docks, which serves 2,000 or more for its Thanksgiving feast. He predicted in 2011 that the word of mouth would increase attendance at Chuck's Fish, on Greensboro Avenue. He seems to have been right, as numbers had already exceeded last year's roughly 250 by halfway through the day.
"We prepared for 600, and so far we've done over half that," said co-owner Cris Eddings, speaking at about 1 p.m. The meal, planned for weeks in advance and prepped by the Chuck's chef for at least a week, was to be served from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. People were waiting in line when doors opened at 11.
Patrons came for different reasons: For some, it was just a chance to enjoy a good meal of turkey breasts, smoked ham, green beans, potatoes, stuffing and pecan pie. For others, it was the meal and a chance to contribute to a good cause. For University of Alabama professor Sue Parker, it was a chance to bring folks who were far from home, including a couple of friends from Israel.
And then there were more practical considerations.
"No dishes, no cleanup, no cooking? Outstanding," said Liz Obradovich, who owns Holiday Inn Express in Tuscaloosa, and was encouraging all the guests at her hotel to come to Chuck's. There were 26 people in her party, sprawled over two floors of the restaurant.
"It was so perfect," she said. "We get to do something good for (Project Blessings) and go home and have a great day."
Although 60 volunteers signed up to work, about 100 actually showed, said Kellee Reinhart, who with her husband Steve has been in on the charity lunch since its beginnings. "People just fell from the sky. And we needed them."
By the end of the day, Chuck's had served about 400 people and raised about $8,000 for Project Blessings.


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Javier Bardem is back doing Cormac McCarthy, and with even crazier hair. The Spanish thesp won a Supporting Actor Academy Award for playing the strangely coiffed, stone-cold killer Anton Chigurh in 'No Country for Old Men,' the Coen brothers' equally acclaimed, 2007 adaptation of McCarthy's blood-drenched novel. Now there is 'The Counselor,' the philosopher poet of Southwest brutality's first-ever original screenplay. Directed by Ridley Scott ('Alien,' 'Gladiator,' 'American Gangster'), the film stars Michael Fassbender as the never-named title character, an El Paso attorney who gets involved in one of those illegal drug deals that goes from horribly to calamitously wrong in McCarthyland. The impressive cast also includes Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt and the real-life Mrs. Bardem, Penelope Cruz. Bardem plays Reiner, a large-living nightclub operator who's in on the Counselor's deal. Reiner is the polar opposite of taciturn, intimidating Chigurh. Motormouthed and fundamentally insecure, self-styled cool guy Reiner has a wardrobe of crazy glasses and retina-scorching, vintage Versace print shirts. His mop of spiked hair screams out in all directions, again a complete contrast to Chigurh's deceptively bumpkinish bowl cut. 'Cormac was on the set almost every day,' Bardem reports. 'We would talk a little bit; I didn't want to bother him with questions. But he was kind of shocked by my haircut again.' Opportunities for screwy 'dos aren't the main draws to McCarthy stories – nor limited to them, as anyone who has seen Bardem's golden-rugged bad guy in 'Skyfall' can attest. 'I like McCarthy as an author,' Bardem, 44, says. 'There are many things that he wrote that make points about many facts and layers of our society. Especially, also, as an actor, it's very like a gift to have those long scenes with those powerful dialogs to play.' Reiner waxes extensively about everything from building a personal ethics code to the latest assassination technology. Romance is a particular pet topic. 'He has this relationship with Cameron's character, called Malkina, that is based on fear,' Bardem observes. 'That's why he talks so much about women, because he is really scared to death of them.' Bardem has no scenes with his wife in the movie; Cruz plays the Counselor's lover, a relative innocent in this rattlesnake nest, except for when she's in bed. Along with its spasms of graphic violence and airy existential riffing, 'The Counselor' boasts some of the rawest sexual conversations ever heard in a Hollywood studio drama. And none are kinkier than Reiner's description of an evening involving him, Malkina and the windshield of a sports car. 'It wasn't just another day at the office,' Bardem says of the sequence, which he both describes to Fassbender and is seen in NSFW flashbacks. 'Of course it's so – I don't think beautifully is the word – amazingly written, the details and images. When I read that scene, it came to me organically, the need of playing that scene. It's funny, but it also shows the fear of my character towards her and towards their relationship. I tell you, it was a brilliant scene, and we had a lot of fun doing it, all of us. First I did it with Michael and then I did it with Cameron.' And then they did it with cheetahs. Yes, along with everything else, Reiner and Malkina keep two of the superfast predators as pets. The cats made work on the film's Spanish exteriors, well, interesting (interiors were shot in England, and it all convincingly subs for Texas and Mexico). 'Of course, they are very well-trained,' Bardem recalls. 'But they are wild animals. Once they stepped out of the truck onto the set, nobody could move or make a noise; they will immediately pay attention to that, and it's a threat to them. You should have seen everybody standing still, without breathing, when those animals were on the set because they tell you in less than a second, you will be dead. They are that fast. 'That said, the people taking care of them knew a lot about them, of course. One day, we all even had a chance to pet them. It was a very amazing experience. They purred, with those eyes looking at you. They are beautiful animals.' Photogenic as they were, the cheetahs were rarely competition for Bardem's onscreen appearance. 'I based all my character on a line that he repeats constantly in the script, which is 'I don't know, I don't want to know," the actor says. 'The glasses also come from there. I don't really think he needs glasses, but he wears those glasses with different colors because he doesn't want to see the real world. 'Also, I wanted to have something in his look, which was the hair, that shows you he's not holding any values or any ideas. The way he dresses, too … he has to be really out there. It's a very free character in some ways, but he's also very stuck in his own fears. So what he's showing the world, the way he wants to be perceived, is the opposite. It's like a man in character.' With his Oscar, success in the Bond film and popularity among international auteurs from his own country's Pedro Almodovar to Woody Allen, Terrence Malick, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Milos Forman, Bardem now views himself professionally as a man of the world. Considering Spain's long-running financial problems, it couldn't have come at a better time. 'I don't see a course that implies nationality,' he says. 'I don't really care about where a movie comes from, just whether I want to be part of it or not. Thank God, I'm very fortunate that I have the opportunity to work outside [Spain] also, especially with how my country is now. It's a pity.'
Javier Bardem's role in 'The Counselor' is a return to Cormac McCarthy, weird hair
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Does a clean kitchen lead to more sex? The art of 'chore-play'
Want to get lucky tonight, Guys? Then perhaps you should reach for a bottle of Windex before you reach for her body. No, I'm not suggesting anything kinky. In fact, the concept of "choreplay"—that women are more likely to want to have sex when their male partner helps out around the house—is a hot topic in research circles:
Our experts at Good in Bed agree: "When we first started talking about the sex–chore connection, my husband was offended," admits Heidi Raykeil. "To him, it felt a little as if I was withholding sex unless he was a 'good boy' and did his chores. But if I'm in the mood and the kitchen's a mess—Errrt! Mental brake screech. My head is suddenly filled with dirty dishes and duties, instead of sex. For me, choreplay just helps a potentially hot situation stay that way."
The "mental brake screech" Heidi describes is actually backed by science: Researchers in the Netherlands found that "the key to female arousal seems to be deep relaxation and a lack of anxiety." In a study in which the brains of men and women were scanned during the process of sexual response using a technique called positron emission tomography (PET), the results showed that the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion reduce during sexual activity.
Men showed far less change in these areas of the brain. Says Dr. Gert Holstege, "What this means is that deactivation, letting go of all fear and anxiety, might be the most important thing, even necessary, to have an orgasm." So what's the lesson? If you want to turn a woman on, the key is to help her turn off—turn off her brain, that is—and that means helping her not worry: like about all the chores that still need to be done.
Of course, it's tough for a woman to chill out when she comes home from one job, only to be burdened by a "second shift" of cleaning, cooking, and chaos. In that scenario, sex is just one more task on her to-do list. The goal of choreplay: to move sex to the top of that list by helping her cross off some of the less scintillating items.
Men aren't mind readers, but most of us are aware enough to notice when the sink is full of dirty dishes or the garbage is overflowing. Once guys start carrying our weight around the house, we're apt to find that women have more energy in the bedroom. There's no motivation like sex! And for all of you guys out there who are already doing your share of the housework, more power to you.
But choreplay isn't just about chores, says Debby Herbenick, a research scientist at Indiana University and sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute. "It's very important not to get into a 'bartering' system or even to see it as a man 'helping his wife' with chores," she warns. "Household chores and parenting are shared responsibilities that researchers have generally found women spend more time on than men. When couples have a more equal partnership, they do tend to have more satisfying sex lives."
In my own life, I've noticed that when I take the time to really play with my kids, my wife finds me sexier—and my chances of sex improve. Of course, playing with my kids isn't a chore, but it's interesting how all the stuff outside the bedroom can make or break what happens inside.
Says Good in Bed expert, Kristen Mark, " One of the reasons many women get turned on by these out-of-bedroom acts is because they demonstrate caring in a different way. If it becomes clear that the act is being done as a means to get sex, it can become a turn OFF. So, do these things as a way to help out, not as a way to get sex....and sex just might end up being a bonus!"
That said, time to go clean up my house and play with the kids.
Ian Kerner is a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author. Read more from him at his website,GoodInBed.
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Margaret Mitchell's killer and the wide receiver Donté Stallworth are among the people who spent little time in jail for taking a life
One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900. By Barron H. Lerner. Johns Hopkins University Press, 218 pp., $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
A paradox of modern life is that Americans stigmatize smokers but have a history of leniency toward drunk drivers who often do more harm. In 1949 Margaret Mitchell died after being hit by the car of an off-duty taxi driver who had alcohol on his breath and 22 previous traffic violations. Hugh Gravitt spent just 10 months and 20 days in jail for killing the author of Gone With the Wind. He also won remarkable sympathy from journalists and others, including the Atlanta Constitution columnist Celestine Sibley, who believed that Mitchell had inadvertently dashed into the path of his car. As late as 1989, Sibley wrote that she hoped to see "a book that exonerates the taxi driver."
Barron Lerner shows in One for the Road that such forbearance remains so common, it may be the rule rather than the exception. In 2009 the Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donté Stallworth killed a jaywalking pedestrian with his car after a night of drinking in Miami Beach. He pled guilty to driving under the influence (DUI) manslaughter and received a 30-day jail sentence (of which he eventually served 24 days). At about the same time, the New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg with a hidden gun that he had carried into a nightclub. His sentence: two years for a crime that harmed no one but himself.
The different fates of the wide receivers suggest the contradictions in American views of drunk driving. For decades respected studies have shown that drivers generally begin to become impaired when they have blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05%. But all 50 states set their legal limit at 0.08%, higher than the level at which the risk of a crash increases. Stricter tests of drunk driving – and penalties for violating them – apply in Australia and much of Asia and Europe. It's illegal to drive with a BAC above 0.05% in France and Italy and above 0.02% in Norway, Sweden and Russia.
Lerner believes America's complacency results in part from a clash between basic values: the desire to promote public safety and to protect to individual rights. It also reflects the national love of cars, the popular view of alcoholism as a disease that needs treatment rather than incarceration, and a new focus on the dangers of texting, talking on cell phones, and other forms of "distracted driving." A few months ago, a Philadelphia Inquirer headline read "Distracted is the new drunk," as though one danger had replaced another.
One for the Road leaves no doubt that the U.S. could reduce the number of drunk-driving casualties — 13,000–17,000 deaths and countless injuries a year. Higher "sin taxes" on cigarettes have helped to deter smoking and would be likely to have a similar effect on drunk driving. And new forms of technology such as ignition interlock devices could help if more states required them.
But whether the U.S. can muster the political will needed to reduce the casualties is uncertain. Some of the tougher laws on drunk driving that exist today resulted from campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s by the Surgeon General C. Everett Koop or by groups such as RID (Remove Intoxicated Drivers) and Mothers Against Driving (MADD), which have lost much of their clout. That movement appears to have stalled. And a powerful alcohol lobby stands ready to push back if it regained momentum.
Lerner is a doctor who specializes in public health and describes all of this with almost clinical detachment, although he appears to favor changes such as lowering the legal blood alcohol content. And his book is less a history of drunk driving than of the up-and-down national effort to control it. That focus can make for dry reading but provides a welcome counterpoint to the emotionalism that often taints media reports on related personal tragedies. One for the Road reminds us that other public health campaigns, worthy as they are, shouldn't drive out efforts to reduce alcohol-fueled casualties on the road. As Lerner writes, "Surely it is hard to argue that someone who smokes, especially away from other people, deserves more scorn than someone who drives drunk."
Best line: In the movie Animal House, four fraternity members wreck a car after a night of drinking. "Although the dean admonishes one of them, warning that 'Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son,' the film's irreverent message was, of course, exactly the opposite."
Worst line: "Perhaps nothing better demonstrates the ambiguities and contradictions of drunk driving than the stories of two women involved in the founding of MADD: Candy Lightner and Cindi Lamb. Both women lost daughters to drunk drivers, although Lamb's daughter, Laura, was paralyzed for six years before dying. In the early 1990s, both women went to work for the alcohol industry, the very people who manufactured and vigorously advertised the product that had, indirectly, led to their children's deaths. As we will see, Lightner and Lamb were not naïve at all and had good reasons for doing what they did.' That's a memorable passage, but Lerner doesn't convince you that their reasons were "good."
Published: September 2011
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